How to Conjugate Influencer (to Influence) in French

How to Conjugate Influencer (to Influence) in French As you might suspect, the French verb  influencer  means to influence. Yet, when you want to say influenced in the past tense or influencing in the present tense, youll need to know how to conjugate the verb. A quick lesson will introduce you to the most important conjugations youll need. The Basic Conjugations of  Influencer French verb conjugations are not the easiest lessons and some are more challenging than others. Influencer is a spelling change verb and that may sound scary at first, but its not bad and theres a good reason for it. The spelling change affects the  c  at the end of the verb stem  influenc-. Typically, when that letter is followed by the vowels  a  or  o, the sound is hard as in cat. To retain the soft  c  sound in the conjugations with endings that begin with these vowels, the  c  changes to a  Ãƒ §. Other than that minor difference in some verb forms,  influencer  is conjugated like a  regular -er  verb. Using the chart, you can study these conjugations by pairing the subject pronoun with the present, future, and imperfect past tenses. As an example,  jinfluence  means I am influencing and  nous influencions  means we influenced. Present Future Imperfect j' influence influencerai influenà §ais tu influences influenceras influenà §ais il influence influencera influenà §ait nous influenà §ons influencerons influencions vous influencez influencerez influenciez ils influencent influenceront influenà §aient The Present Participle of  Influencer Due to the -ant  ending used to form the  present participle  of  influencer, the spelling change is required here as well. That gives us the word  influenà §ant. Influencer  in the Compound Past Tense Passà © composà ©Ã‚  is another way to say influenced in French. This compound past tense requires the  past participle  influencà ©Ã‚  and an auxiliary verb. To form this, conjugate  avoir  into the present tense for the subject, then add  influencà ©. This leaves us with phrases such as  jai influencà ©Ã‚  (I influenced) and  nous avons influencà ©Ã‚  (we influenced). More Simple Conjugations of  Influencer Among the other simple conjugations, you may need for  influencer  are  the subjunctive  and  the conditional. Both give the act of influencing some uncertainty, though the conditional says it will only happen under certain conditions. If you read or write much French, you will likely encounter  the passà © simple  and  the imperfect subjunctive. These are literary tenses and used frequently in formal French writing. Subjunctive Conditional Passà © Simple Imperfect Subjunctive j' influence influencerais influenà §ai influenà §asse tu influences influencerais influenà §as influenà §asses il influence influencerait influenà §a influenà §Ãƒ ¢t nous influencions influencerions influenà §Ãƒ ¢mes influenà §assions vous influenciez influenceriez influenà §Ãƒ ¢tes influenà §assiez ils influencent influenceraient influencà ¨rent influenà §assent It is possible that you will find some uses for  influencer  in  the French imperative.  When you do use it, all formality is dropped and you can skip the subject pronoun. Imperative (tu) influence (nous) influenà §ons (vous) influencez